Sunday, August 14, 2011

Mubarak Handed Over Database of Egyptians to FBI

U.S. documents reveal: Mubarak Al-Adli handed the FBI National Archives the number of Egyptians
Books unite Magdy
No. 1851 - Wednesday - July 13, 2011

A real disaster revealed a secret U.S. documents which confirmed that the deposed President Hosni Mubarak and his interior minister Habib al-Adli they handed over the FBI all the data contained in the archive of Egyptian national ID database and fingerprinting and registration code.

This is revealed by documents bearing the slogan «Secret» leaked from the FBI recently to document what was in the files and Wikileaks to confirm the existence of cooperation seriously by former interior minister, Habib al-Adli approval of ousted President Hosni Mubarak when he handed in a secret April 2009 Archive national ID and database fingerprint data and recording the Egyptian Criminal Investigation Federal after he refused to Mr. Omar Suleiman, head of Egyptian intelligence, backed by former Major General Hassan Abdel Rahman, head of SSI dissolved his extradition to America over the years Khaddmtehma.

The incident represents a real disaster almost reach the limit of «employment», where we have a definition in the Dictionary of Intelligence, which includes a description of the sixth to the client as a «work in the government system or in the security system of the state by spying or working against their interests can not doubt his credibility or the patriotism of his people ».

Confidential documents show that U.S. intelligence agencies all kinds, backed by intelligence services, many in the world has always been seeking the Archive and they do not still see that the database Archive Egyptian security is one of the most expensive and most archives of the world system and the abundance of information, regardless of the methods that collect through which, and that the arrival of the Archive of American equipment was regarded as a kind of development and a serious shot him in the war on terrorism, but more dangerous is the fact of dealing and cooperation, which engulfed the deposed dictator and his interior minister with the intelligence services in different world at the expense of the Egyptian national security.

Time was on 13 April 2009, at seven in the evening when he stood at the gate of the Ministry of the Interior a large number of brigades ministry Uniformed and three vehicles all the black plates follow the U.S. Embassy in Cairo makes its way quietly the entire cross-Sheikh Rihan in central Cairo heading to the headquarters building of the Ministry of Interior and almost up to the intersection of Sheikh Rihan and Mansour even clog the roads from all ports and find the gates of the ministry is open to Massaraeiha and to enter until you close the gates and starts from the inside, landing them opening three chapters of the vehicle's initial first down man Itensm air beautiful campaign winds in the city of Cairo on the eve of the Today, the moderate, that man is Robert Mueller, director of the FBI's famous, who held the post since September 4, 2001, and Part II landing a woman known to all, Ms. Margaret Scobey U.S. Ambassador in Cairo, beginning January 23, 2008, and on the red carpet furnished front of the entrance gate leading the Office of the Minister of Interior Habib Al-Adli give up guard for the U.S. lead the way for the public relations officers, accompanied by Egyptian visitors directly to the office «Adli».

In the background is clear to us some of the facts has asked the U.S. delegation based on the desire of director of the FBI «American» Mueller met «Adli» Director of SSI dissolved Major General Hassan Abdel Rahman, the individual and not the presence of the other party, the political background is a lot of tension in relations between the two countries because of the categorical rejection of the U.S. policy of torture in Egypt used systematically, and holds «Mueller» in his hand a thick file documenting the American Administration in many of the torture.

Before their visit to the Ministry of the Interior viable and Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit, where denial of torture in Egypt brought forth by the Director FBI «Mueller» documentation Egyptian government reports - according to the documents secret new U.S. - that the Interior Ministry and the Mubarak regime had stopped in 2004 for denying the fact that there torture in Egypt and that there is a copy of the security agreement signed between Egypt and the U.S. signed Habib al-Adli require a venue for an annual periodically between the FBI and the State Security in Egypt to discuss the sensitive files between the two countries, and that the United States had obtained recognition from Mubarak himself the existence of torture, But he announced to them that in the narrower borders against terrorist processes only.

U.S. delegation briefed Abul-Gheit further information, where he was given documentation to provide 18 officers Egyptian criminal trials in the period from 2004 to 2007 on charges of torture and of them sentenced to a window to prison terms ranging between one and fifteen years, but they asked «Abul», which appeared like the first time, see the information interpreted the non-implementation of the Egyptian regime to the political agreement are confidential and took place between the U.S. administration and Hosni Mubarak to stop the emergency law in the People's deadline in 2008, and Mubarak announced to America before he signed them to Council members the 454 will agree to stop the law when the emergency command them to do so by the deadline.

«Mubarak» request a deadline for the provision of a new law the so-called terrorism law and was puzzled to find a law to be more serious on the Egypt of the emergency law, but according to the documents highly confidential Vajoh file an investigation of U.S. security separately stating the existence of information peculiar about the involvement of «Adli» in the events of terrorism or that is the pressure of its policies of oppression and led to those events and their papers, which stated: "In a 2005 bombing of a trilogy in Sharm el-Sheikh expected 88 people and 200 injured, and all of Egypt closes the security grip it - in 2006 a terrorist attack and the bombing of three in the city of Dahab tourism in South Sinai predicted 24 Guetalaz In February terrorist bombing in Khan El-Khalili sign dead a young Frenchman, "and put the U.S. delegation investigations Ali Mubarak does not have it except that they are asked to meet with« Adli »and« Abdul Rahman »and declares his consent to any request they ask him to even close the the subject Vtkon opportunity for them.

From here the delegation found the American road paved completely to a U.S. demand is important for the U.S. intelligence agencies, a copy of the archive number of Egyptian national and a copy of a database record of criminal and civil for the Egyptians on the grounds that America needs the data to be under the hands I have to investigate any issues related to terrorism to be their investigations quick and on the basis of a wealth of information such as those found in the databases of the state security of Egypt, even they noted that day to this Archive has documented only the Egyptians but also documented for the citizens of the Russian Federation, Pakistan, Afghanistan Oppe a large proportion of citizens of other Arab states, hence the importance of the claim for a copy of it.

In meetings Mubarak implicitly threatened that they will be deployed around the world, investigations of terrorist operations and information about particular that those operations had claimed the lives of foreigners could turn the world on the Egyptian regime had arrived for the mere suspicion, and that «Adli» was playing in the shadows.

Strange that the document proves the existence of information bizarre truth about the separation, even if part of the policy work of Hassan Abdul-Rahman and Habib al-Adli While we believe that Adli, working double always with Mubarak, who is driven, we find Hassan Abdul Rahman seemed coherent to the U.S. demand, and make sure the documents he refused to surrender Archive security Egypt over a period of over years of service, but we find the same documents they they met also with Omar Suleiman, Egypt's intelligence chief has announced the rejection of intelligence, the explicit request of the U.S. but he asked them to discuss the Mubarak Al-Adli, where the decision is in the final sovereign decision of the President and implementation of sole Adeli, which is under Archive Egyptian his disposal.

Documents confirm that Mubarak has asked «Adli» and explained to him in a private meeting between the seriousness of the file and Thagoh and that no objection to the delivery of Archive as long as they will make to another state and will be used in the service of the world against terrorism, and agreed-Adli immediately, but he asked Mubarak involving Abdul Rahman in the subject , where the Archive is also in possession of, but «Mubarak» according to the documents that the most serious Adli Abdel-Rahman and Sulaiman arm's too much patriotism as described by Mubarak, who came to the topic listed in the documents, and asked Adli work too far from Rahman.

Another document proving that the Director of the FBI Robert Mueller on his visit to Cairo in the period from 8 to February 9, 2006, met in the presence of Francis Richard Denis former U.S. ambassador to Cairo with Mubarak and Al-Adli Abdel-Rahman and Sulaiman were asked to expand the size of the security agreement between SSI and the detective U.S. federal and offered them the exchange of Archive Security Code and the Iraqi Civil Masri is that they did not seem interested in that day and agreed to expand cooperation with regard to the provision of the United States to give the training more to members of the body where we find that most of them have received advanced training courses in America and they are practically and officially have the largest Certificates professional in the field but also excelled on the officers of the world.

Data meetings, we find a great deal of talk about talk «Mubarak» and «Al-Adli» always on the extent of the Muslim Brotherhood on Egypt, but we are surprised when we see that the talk about the Muslim Brotherhood was taking actually more than two thirds of the time of each meeting and that the Americans were taking the modern argument to America must be delivered for use by the Egyptian Archive America to fight with the Muslim Brotherhood «Mubarak».

Other information found in documents, tried all the way Mubarak to dodge in 2006 for non-delivery Archive has been proposed to them that day Send Omar Suleiman to Damascus to ask the leadership of Hamas to halt Palestinian attacks on Israel and that Mubarak had succeeded in doing that would be the gift of the American system and that has been made, including be a partner of the United States.

Visit the other has and find their data in the same documents between the parties in November 28, 2007, demanding also access the archives of Egypt because of its importance for the war on terror was not without hearing talk about the seriousness of the Muslim Brotherhood and the need to help U.S. authorities the Mubarak regime to overcome them.

«Higher» returned to his office and is designed to implicate Rahman Aftlbh to his office one last time to consult on the subject in the meeting, lists the document that Abdul Rahman unlike the rest of the assistants Adli was not fear but he is inside the ministry is stronger than Adli itself and in the meeting refused to Abdul Rahman delivered Archive Egyptian and threatened him Pfdha and asked him to show them that the security of the State who want to self-disclosure revealed that Abdul Rahman would be a work of detection in the minutes and the result Stsalhm few hours later so out of pressure-Adli, the latter asked him to leave.

Documents prove that the Al-Adli has decided to act on his own and arranged for the delegation of the U.S. what they asked for without knowing any official of the Ministry of Interior until Abdel-Rahman remained the same day he left the ministry does not know that the Archive may Adli handed to them on condition of exploitation are harmful to Egypt.

It is known that this archive is located within the internal network security can not be accessed from outside the country or for example, how the FBI will get updates on the Archive is the information that occur daily update on Alerchiven deletion and addition? Bewildered questions we did not find an answer to it in documents that merely telling.

Documents confirmed that there is a written agreement signed in secret between Adli and the U.S. is that one does not find the text of that agreement until now, whether in the possession of Al-Adli, or between documents left by the former president to keep the topic simply listed in the top secret documents were leaked from the FBI.

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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Credentials of Unique Identification Number under scanner

Legal notices to Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) are questioning its credentials to begin the process of acquiring biometric data of people to provide them the 12-digit UID number even before a law on UID comes into force.

Two legal notices issued to UIDAI chairman Nandan Nilekani on July 5 and July 6 also raise concerns over UID numbers invading the privacy of individuals as these are for multi-utility service use, and would force individuals to leave trails, allowing invasion of their privacy.

Mathew Thomas, general secretary, Citizens’ Action Forum, and VK Somashekhar, founder patron, Coordinated Action of Consumer and Voluntary Organisations of Karnataka (CACVOK), have separately issued legal notices to Nilekani on Tuesday and Wednesday through their respective advocates, BT Venkatesh, and A Mahabaleshwara Bhat, a former additional central government standing high court counsel.

The notices aim to mobilise the country against the UIDAI, which, they say, has begun the process of enrolling citizens with UID numbers without waiting for the bill’s enactment in Parliament, Venkatesh, Mathew and Somashekhar alleged on Thursday.

“The bill is still with the standing committee on finance. With whose authority has the UIDAI started enrolling?” said Mathew.
“Without a final project report, the UIDAI is randomly signing contracts and paying crores to private agencies for the works,” Venkatesh said. “Is there a guarantee that the private agencies will not misuse the data?”

Mathew said, “The UIDAI says gas connection, bank accounts and utility billings will be linked through the 12-digit UID number. Wherever you go and whatever you buy, your biometric detail will leave information about your private life for the state. Isn’t it a threat to individual privacy then?”

Ashok Dalwai, deputy director general, technology centre, UIDAI, said: “We have taken care of security, confidentiality and privacy aspects that people are worried about.”

Venkatesh said they would file suits against UIDAI if the authority failed to reply within ten days.

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_credentials-of-unique-identification-number-under-scanner_1563518

Group decries Centre's Aadhaar biometric project

Panaji: While the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is busy implementing Aadhaar, the unique identification project across India, Bharat Mukti Morcha (BMM) has petitioned president of India Pratibha Patil through the North Goa collector, objecting to the implementation of the biometric project.

Alleging that the UID is a conspiracy to put private citizens under surveillance, BMM has urged the Union government to scrap the unique identification project as it is a violation of the privacy of citizens.

"Through UID, tracking of individuals becomes easy. All information collected by UIDAI will be easily accessible to intelligence agencies such as the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) through the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID)," said Goa convener of BMM Sebastian Rodrigues. "This may lead to suppression of democratic liberties," he said.

The BMM has noted that while the National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2010, is yet to be passed by Parliament, biometric enrolment for the National Population Register ( NPR)) is being carried out under Citizenship Act 1955 and Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules 2003.

Unlike the Census Act 1948, which declares in Section 15 that census records 'will not be open to inspection or admissible as evidence', these other laws do not have such safeguards.

"Biometric cards invade privacy and as such are a violation of the fundamental right to life with dignity guaranteed by the constitution. Even developed nations such as Britain, USA and Australia which tried to enforce such cards were forced to scrap them after public protests," Rodrigues added.

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has already begun issuing unique numbers to residents in different parts of India. The numbers will be stored in a centralized database and linked to biometric information such as photographs, fingerprints and iris scans of citizens.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Group-decries-Centres-Aadhaar-biometric-project/articleshow/9389041.cms

Achuthanandan Against Unique Identification Number (UID) Scheme

Note: One of the senior most and honest politicians of South Asia, 87 years old, V S Achuthanandan, the Leader of the Opposition in the Kerala State Assembly and the supporter of free and open source software movement initiated by Richard Stallman, a US based computer programmer, has objected to Unique Identification Number (UID) scheme of the Prime Minister which has been abandoned in United Kingdom, Philippines and other countries.

The Centralised Identities Data Register (CIDR) of UID Numbers is linked to the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) under Union Home Ministry. Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley has rejected NATGRID citing certainty of wikileaks.

Gopal Krishna
Member, Citizens Forum for Liberties (CFCL)
New Delhi

V S Achuthanandan voices misgivings about UID project

27 JUL, 2011, PTI
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: CPI(M) veteran V S Achuthanandan today expressed misgivings about theUID scheme launched by the Centre "without proper debate" in Parliament and alleged that the true intention behind the programme was to help IT firms hit by the global downturn.

The Centre was moving ahead with the Unique Identification Number (UID) campaign without bothering about its implications or taking into account the experiences of countries which had abandoned it mid-way after realising the dangers involved, Achuthanandnan, who is Kerala Opposition Leader, said.

The UID programme envisaged collection of bio-metric details of each citizen,without factoring in the security implications or invasion of privacy. Countries like the United Kingdom and Philippines had abandoned the project mid-way after realising the latent dangers,he said.

In India, the project had been announced without a proper debate in Parliament or bringing in a draft bill, the former Chief Minister said in a statement here.

The true intention behind the scheme was to help IT companies hit by the global downturn, he alleged.

Achuthanandan took strong objection to UDF government's decision to fast-track the UID campaign in the state, as announced by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy soon after coming to power.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/V-S-Achuthanandan-voices-misgivings-about-UID-project/articleshow/9385650.cms

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Isn't UID, a tool for holocaust?

Apropos of "Is UIDN a tool for holocaust?", Nirad Mudur attributes benevolent motives to a regressive and malevolent project like UID Number. Mudur says, "UIDN is NOT an identity proof." His contention is factually incorrect.

According to the Press Brief for National launch of Unique Identification Numbers issued by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), "The Aadhaar number will ease these difficulties in identification, by providing a nationally valid and verifiable single source of identity proof. The UIDAI will ensure the uniqueness of the Aadhaar numbers through the use of biometric attributes (Finger Prints and Iris) which will be linked to the number". This release was issued on 29th September 2010 when Unique Identification Numbers (Aadhaar) were first distributed.

Mudur says, "What is the guarantee that the already existing 15 identity proofs (including voters' identity card or ration card) mentioned by Gopal Krishna will not be tapped to identify minorities to launch a holocaust-like pogrom?" The answer to this question is there in Government of India's Draft Discussion Paper on Privacy Bill which states, "Data privacy and the need to protect personal information is almost never a concern when data is stored in a decentralized manner. Data that is maintained in silos is largely useless outside that silo and consequently has a low likelihood of causing any damage."

As to Mudur's blind faith in the US system, he has not checked relevant facts. Draft Discussion paper on Privacy Law reveals, "There is no data protection statute in the country" unlike the U.S. Federal Privacy Statute or the European Directive on Data Protection.

UID Number is an attempt to convert a resident into a number, Indian population into a market, and then citizens into subjects. Mudur says, "Government's fault lies in not ensuring a series of open discussions on the project before launching it." Is it an innocent fault or a grave and unpardonable sin?


Monday, November 22, 2010

SARKOZY'S MISTAKE

SARKOZY'S MISTAKE

By Ignacio Ramonet (*)
PARIS, Nov (IPS) It's no surprise. For over two centuries, protest has been a part of the political genetic code of French society. In addition to being constitutionally guaranteed, street protests and strikes are natural ways of fully exercising citizenship. Each new generation considers that participating in cyclic fits of social anger is a rite of passage to become a full member of the democracy.

This time the crisis was triggered by the French president. Discredited and besmirched by various rank scandals, blinded by the International Monetary Fund and credit ranking agencies, Nicholas Sarkozy is proving oblivious to people's concerns and is trying to demolish one of the crown jewels of the welfare state: the right to retire at the age of 60.

Won after decades of struggle, this social victory is seen in the French collective imagination as untouchable. Sarkozy, who in 2008 promised to respect it, has underestimated the public's attachment to this right. Taking advantage of the shock produced by the global economic crisis, he is trying to push through a reform that would raise the legal retirement age from 60 to 62, increase the contribution period to 41.5 years, and raise the age at which you can collect a full pension from 65 to 67 years.

Some believe that Sarkozy's real goal is dismantling the public social security system based on solidarity among generations, and replace it with a private scheme that would represent a market of between 40-100 billion euros. They note that the insurance company that would benefit most from such a move is the Malakoff Mederic group, whose CEO is none other than Guillaume Sarkozy, the brother of the president.

The reaction of the major unions is unanimous. Without rejecting the proposal entirely, they are demanding changes, arguing that the cost of the reform would fall primarily on salary workers, already reeling from the crisis, and that this would create greater inequality. They organised a few days of protests before the summer. But the government arrogantly maintained its blanket refusal to negotiate.

That was a major error. When people returned to work in September after the holidays, the general assemblies met in hundreds of workplaces and salary workers reaffirmed their "not a step backwards" position. They were convinced that giving up something as sacred as retirement at 60 would trigger an avalanche of additional cuts in social security, health care, education, and public services.

These meetings demonstrated that union leadership was much less radical than the rank and file, exasperated by the constant erosion of social advances. Immediately after, there was a rash of collective actions across the country; millions took to the streets; the prolonged general strike slowed transport to a crawl; certain cities, like Marseilles, were entirely paralysed. With every addition day of actions new elements of society joined the protest, which assumed unprecedented forms.

The most original is the blockade of refineries and oil depots. The most notable is the massive incorporation of secondary school students into the protests. Many assumed this was the Facebook generation, autistic and self-absorbed, but their confrontational energy revealed an anxiety about the future and a fear that for the first time since 1945, if nothing changed, they would be worse off than their parents. The new neoliberal model destroyed the social ladder.

The protests are the crystallisation of a profound social malaise and an accumulation of woes: unemployment, precariousness, poverty (there are 8 million poor), the hardships of daily life. Thus it is not merely a matter of pensions but a fight for another social model.

What is most important is that a sizable majority of the French people -60-70 percent- support the protests. How is it possible that the France of 1945, ravaged by World War Two, could afford a welfare state and yet today's France, the fifth greatest economy in the world, cannot? Never before has there been such wealth. In 2009 the five largest banks reported profits of 11 billion euros while the 40 largest companies cleared 47 billion euros. Why not tax these colossal sums to benefit the pensioners. The European Commission estimates that a small tax on financial transactions would bring EU governments between 145-372 billion euros per year -certainly enough to shore up the pension systems.

But neoliberal dogma requires that capital remain off limits for taxation, which would be increased instead on individual income.

And thus the current mood in France. The general feeling is that neither of the opposing forces can give in. The unions, driven by a ground swell of radicalisation, remain united after months of their offensive. To give in would be a defeat like that of the British miners by Margaret Thatcher in 1985, which spelled the end of workers resistance in the UK and opened the door to ultraliberal "shock therapy".

Sarkozy has the backing of the EU, the IMF, and European banking and business sectors, which are terrified that the "French spark" could ignite the whole continent. The defeat of his reforms would condemn him to defeat at the polls in 2012. The social history of France teaches that when protests spread to the extent they have today, they will never recede. They always win. (END/COPYRIGHT IPS)

(*) Ignacio Ramonet is director of "Le Monde diplomatique en espanol"
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[1] European Council in Barcelona in March 2002 recommended: "undertaking to progressively raise the average retirement age in the European Union by about 5 years as of 2010."

[2] In Spain, the president of the Confederation of Employers and Industries (CEOE), Gerardo Diaz Ferran, defends as "advisable and indispensable" increasing "the retirement age to 70". He adds that "salary workers must work more and, unfortunately, earn less." He calls for a broadening of the pension contribution period to "the entire working life" and for workers to create "private pensions". Europa Press, July 26, 2010, and ABC Madrid, October 15, 2010.

Friday, August 27, 2010

'Drafters of N-Bill ignored ILO recommendations'

Press Trust of India / New Delhi, August 25, 2010

An environmental health researcher has sought intervention of the National Human Rights Commission, alleging that drafters of the Nuclear Liability Bill have ignored recommendations of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) on radiation protection.

"India has ratified Radiation Protection Convention, 1960 of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) but its provisions have not been complied with. It is yet to ratify ILO's Occupational Cancer Convention, 1974 which is concerning Prevention and Control of Occupational Hazards caused by Carcinogenic Substances.


"Drafters of the Nuclear Liability Bill appear to have ignored their recommendations," convenor and founder of Toxics Watch Alliance Gopal Krishna charged in his petition submitted to the Commission yesterday.

ILO's Radiation Protection Convention with regard to maximum permissible doses of ionising radiations which may be received from external or internal sources and the maximum permissible amounts of radioactive substances has been ignored, he claimed.

In his petition to NHRC, Krishna also submitted that the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science & Technology, Environment & Forests in its 25-page report on the Bill, which was tabled in Parliament on August 18, was of the opinion that Government must have sought the opinion of Ministries which are even "distantly" related to any provision of the legislation.

"When the Committee inquired from the Secretaries of Ministries/Departments of Government of India who appeared before the Committee as to whether the draft nuclear liability Bill was referred to them for their views/comments, some of them viz the Ministries of Health & Family Welfare, Agriculture, Labour & Employment, Food & Public Distribution, etc replied in the negative," he quoted the Committee as saying in the report.

He pleaded the Commission to take cognisance of the submissions of "these Secretaries" and direct the concerned authorities to internalise their suggestions in the text of the Bill to protect the human rights of Indian citizens and safeguard intergenerational equity.

Krishna requested the Commission to start proceedings to ascertain from the authorities concerned both at Centre and the state as to how would they respond in the event of a nuclear disaster, number of existing factories and industries in the country where radioactive material is used and whether they maintain an inventory of such products.

He also wanted the commission to ascertain the total number of workers employed in the nuclear power industries and other nuclear installations, institutions which have the competence to decontaminate and the medical, occupational health and scientific institutions which can diagnose radiation exposure.

Among other things, he also urged the Commission to ascertain what action has been taken by the central government and the state governments to protect exposure from radiation in the future.

"Commission may inquire or investigate into the problem of radioactive radiation and issue necessary directions/ recommendations for its prevention and appropriate remedial steps to the Central Government/State Governments and UTs," he pleaded.

Source: http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/\draftersn-bill-ignored-ilo-recommendations\/106434/on